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VPRO MEdialab Meet Ups

As a broadcaster, you tell stories on TV, radio and the internet. But stories are now everywhere: on your body, in the train, on your phone. How can you use these new and unexpected platforms to tell stories? Which stories are suited to which mediums? And not least, how do you reach that audience? With the travelling dialogue ‘VPRO Medialab Meet Up’, VPRO Medialab moves around the country to research the future of storytelling. Media makers and storytellers with diverse backgrounds and from various disciplines meet, research and inspire each other: from programme maker to journalist, from creative coder to game developer and from artist to innovation expert.

We are researching 5 aspects of storytelling in collaboration with 5 national media festivals. First stop is TodaysArt on 23 September, where Non-fiction Stories are key

Meet Up @ TodaysArt

The First Meet Up-stop of our travelling dialogue is TodaysArt in The Hague on Friday 23 September. This festival is an international platform for transdisciplinary creativity and digital culture. The Meet Up focuses on Non-fiction stories.

The VPRO Medialab Meet Up is part of TodaysArt Bright Collisions. Bright Collisions is an international symposium that aims to form a meeting point with a cross-sector focus aiming to promote transdisciplinary and creative explorations.

Getting there

Read here more about getting there by car or public transport and parking.

Meet the Makers

We have invited six inspirational (inter)national makers to each VPRO Medialab Meet Up, together with the relevant media festival. After two of their presentations about storytelling you can join the group with your favourite storyteller. In a small setting, you can then together examine and research how the medium influences the story, if the format is appropriate to the medium and how you can help the maker, and he you.

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Floris Kaayk

Floris Kaayk

The Modular Body is Dutch multimedia artist and filmmaker Floris Kaayk’s latest foray into the realm of online storytelling. Created in collaboration with journalist and artist Ine Poppe, The Modular Body recounts the story of bio-technologist Cornelis Vlasman and his very own, miniature Frankenstein, OSCAR, the world’s first living organism built from human cells. Told through an intricate web of 56 interconnected videos, each clip, whether video blog update or news report, reveals another intimate detail of the OSCAR puzzle. The Modular Body follows in the footsteps of Human Birdwings and Rayfish Footwear, toying with the ways in which information, be it fact or fiction, is consumed and disseminated across the internet. But where the earlier projects presented themselves as marvels of scientific discovery, The Modular Body is explicitly a fanciful work of science fiction.

This Meet Up Floris Kaayk will give a talk about The Modular Body and will afterwards host a table during the Meet the makers rounds.

Rob van Hattum

Rob van Hatttum

Scientific journalist Rob van Hattum is one of the creators of The Mind of the Universe, a unique international open source knowledge project about the rapid evolution of our knowledge. The ten-part television series, in combination with a dynamic digital environment, presents tomorrow’s world through the eyes of the greatest thinkers and scientists of our time. People have been involved with the project via social media since production started in January 2016. Non-fiction project The Mind of the Universe integrates various platforms with telling the story: TV, open source knowledge project, social media and a web-based education course.

Ali Eslami

Ali Eslami

Ali Eslami(1991) is a computerartist based in Tehran, Iran. He has been working with VR-technology since 2014. He develops and designs VR Experiences to explore new pathways. Besides VR he’s been spanning through varied genres in computer art mostly focused on 3D environments. He started self learning 3D for Architectural Viz since 2005 and softly changed his focus to varied fields like animation, computer graphics, creative coding, interactive prototypes and data visualization.

Chris Bajema

Chris Bajema

Radio and theatre maker Chris Bajema is the Man with the Microphone, a programme about real and almost real stories. Such as This American Life, or Plots (VPRO), but then with a touch of fiction. And all without broadcasting funds. With his orange Ford Transit he drives through his own neighbourhood to interview people.

Maite Vermeulen

De Correspondent

Maite Vermeulen (1988) is a Conflict & Development correspondent at De Correspondent. She studied Liberal Arts & Sciences at University College in Utrecht and Conflict, Security and Development at King's College in London. She worked previously as an editor for nrc.next. De Correspondent is an online platform for global news. With the objective of providing the world with more context, it presents the news with a broader perspective or in a different light. Maite’s mission is to bring the far away world as close as possible, because a better world begins with a better understanding of the world.

Nicolas Boritch

Nicolas Boritch

Nicolas Boritch is one of the makers of Entropy, which will premiere at TodaysArt. Entropy is a collaboration between artists and scientists which aims to frame a public lecture by professional astronomers staged as an immersive live audio-visual performance. Original music composed and performed live by mysterious sonic pioneers Dopplereffekt, will be integrated with a unique set of scientific visualisations of real data staged and directed by Antivj artists. Read more about Entropy.